Yesterday we negotiated the transfer to Baiyue mini-van: 300 yuan (30 euros) per 100 km, 3 hours away. Indeed, there is no bus connection between the two cities that belong to two different prefectures. The driver was right on time at the hotel. The road is beautiful, it's a gravel path all the way down and the profile is: our destination is located only 3000 m, is the point bottom of our journey on the Tibetan plateau. We follow the beautiful Jinsha River, (Golden Sands), which makes the Yangtze will become a bit further ... sandy beaches bordering the brownish waters carried by a strong current.
Approaching Baiyu, the monastery of the town stands out on a ridge. Built in the seventeenth century, this monastery is one of six major centers of Tibetan Nyingma.
Nyingma ("old") dates back to 750, it is the oldest sect of Tibetan. It is also known as the "red sect" because the Nyingma lamas wear a dress and a red hat. Their practices are based on eight fundamental Tantras. Five of them relate to how we must live in the world and the three others the way he should leave. For these monks, the spirit is pure and is rejecting any outside influence that can feel at one with Buddha. In the Buddhist pantheon
Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche) is the central deity of the Nyingma.
The vehicle will leave us in the main street of Baiyue, bordered by tall trees which provide good shade that we appreciate. So we start off, laden with our big bag back to the monastery, which appears on the heights in all its splendor. While walking we perceive music and songs and guess the distance a colorful crowd ... It's our lucky day, we come upon a religious festival at the monastery in honor of Guru Rinpoche. We are in the right week, the new moon has only a few days!
Our arrival on the square outside the monastery is a great time. The place is crowded. At the center, about twenty monks dance slowly to the sound of drums mounted on a platform. All around, the villagers are sitting down, in tight clusters. We are encumbered our big bags and we entrust them to the custody of a collective group of women. Then we can mingle with the crowd quiet and colorful.
monks dancing costumes are lush colors, huge hats hide their faces but the movements are slow and sober. All traditional Tibetan musical instruments are out. Long horns with bass (Dungchen), enormous hanging gongs, the Oboe (Gyaling) and other typical flutes ...
The ceremony lasted only a half hour and then slowly everyone disperses and monks (one hundred) gather for the distribution of meals.
We investigated the long-run guest house set on a forum by Laura travelers: the welcome is friendly, two young Tibetan women offer us a large room with two beds. Unfortunately, the area is without water! Work to build a housing complex near the source are (!) Of this problem. It seems to last for months ... the Chinese built a lot, but cares little local difficulties. We find in our room bowls arranged on a wooden rack and thermos of hot water, cold water is available in a can and probably comes from the nearby river! This is the second time we are faced with these local shortages (cf. Manigango)
Approaching Baiyu, the monastery of the town stands out on a ridge. Built in the seventeenth century, this monastery is one of six major centers of Tibetan Nyingma. Nyingma ("old") dates back to 750, it is the oldest sect of Tibetan. It is also known as the "red sect" because the Nyingma lamas wear a dress and a red hat. Their practices are based on eight fundamental Tantras. Five of them relate to how we must live in the world and the three others the way he should leave. For these monks, the spirit is pure and is rejecting any outside influence that can feel at one with Buddha. In the Buddhist pantheon
Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche) is the central deity of the Nyingma.
The vehicle will leave us in the main street of Baiyue, bordered by tall trees which provide good shade that we appreciate. So we start off, laden with our big bag back to the monastery, which appears on the heights in all its splendor. While walking we perceive music and songs and guess the distance a colorful crowd ... It's our lucky day, we come upon a religious festival at the monastery in honor of Guru Rinpoche. We are in the right week, the new moon has only a few days!
Our arrival on the square outside the monastery is a great time. The place is crowded. At the center, about twenty monks dance slowly to the sound of drums mounted on a platform. All around, the villagers are sitting down, in tight clusters. We are encumbered our big bags and we entrust them to the custody of a collective group of women. Then we can mingle with the crowd quiet and colorful. 
monks dancing costumes are lush colors, huge hats hide their faces but the movements are slow and sober. All traditional Tibetan musical instruments are out. Long horns with bass (Dungchen), enormous hanging gongs, the Oboe (Gyaling) and other typical flutes ...
The ceremony lasted only a half hour and then slowly everyone disperses and monks (one hundred) gather for the distribution of meals.
We investigated the long-run guest house set on a forum by Laura travelers: the welcome is friendly, two young Tibetan women offer us a large room with two beds. Unfortunately, the area is without water! Work to build a housing complex near the source are (!) Of this problem. It seems to last for months ... the Chinese built a lot, but cares little local difficulties. We find in our room bowls arranged on a wooden rack and thermos of hot water, cold water is available in a can and probably comes from the nearby river! This is the second time we are faced with these local shortages (cf. Manigango)
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